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Overview

Vladimir Kitaev is affiliated with Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada and works primarily in the field of Materials Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Biomaterials, Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Materials Chemistry.

Their work focuses on several key topics, notably:

  • Nanoparticle-Based Drug Delivery
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications
  • Nanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
  • Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications
  • Clay minerals and soil interactions
  • Therapeutic Uses of Natural Elements

Vladimir Kitaev has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Nicole Cathcart, Reza Taheri-Ledari, Wenjie Zhang, Ali Maleki, and Maral Radmanesh.

Their publications have appeared in a variety of scientific journals, with multiple papers in the journal Small. Other publication venues include the Journal of Nanobiotechnology, ACS Applied Nano Materials, The Analyst, and the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part B Applied Biomaterials.

Recent papers by Vladimir Kitaev include:

  • RETRACTED: Multi-Stimuli Nanocomposite Therapeutic: Docetaxel Targeted Delivery and Synergies in Treatment of Human Breast Cancer Tumor, 2020, Small
  • Plasmonic photothermal release of docetaxel by gold nanoparticles incorporated onto halloysite nanotubes with conjugated 2D8-E3 antibodies for selective cancer therapy, 2021, Journal of Nanobiotechnology
  • Gold Nanoprisms: Synthetic Approaches for Mastering Plasmonic Properties and Implications for Biomedical Applications, 2020, ACS Applied Nano Materials
  • RETRACTION: Multi-Stimuli Nanocomposite Therapeutic: Docetaxel Targeted Delivery and Synergies in Treatment of Human Breast Cancer Tumor, 2024, Small
  • Core-satellite assembly of gold nanoshells on solid gold nanoparticles for a color coding plasmonic nanosensor, 2021, The Analyst

Best Publications

  • Bottom-up assembly of photonic crystals

    Georg von Freymann;Vladimir Kitaev;Bettina V. Lotsch;Geoffrey A. Ozin

  • Colloidal crystal films: advances in universality and perfection.

    Sean Wong;Vladimir Kitaev;Geoffrey A Ozin

  • From colour fingerprinting to the control of photoluminescence in elastic photonic crystals

    André C. Arsenault;Timothy J. Clark;Georg von Freymann;Ludovico Cademartiri

  • Facile preparation of highly monodisperse small silica spheres (15 to >200 nm) suitable for colloidal templating and formation of ordered arrays.

    Kurtis D. Hartlen;and Aristidis P. T. Athanasopoulos;Vladimir Kitaev

  • Amplified photochemistry with slow photons

    J. I. L. Chen;G. von Freymann;S. Y. Choi;V. Kitaev;V. Kitaev

  • Synthesis of size-controlled faceted pentagonal silver nanorods with tunable plasmonic properties and self-assembly of these nanorods.

    Brendan Pietrobon;Matthew McEachran;Vladimir Kitaev

  • Photochemical Synthesis of Monodisperse Size-Controlled Silver Decahedral Nanoparticles and Their Remarkable Optical Properties

    Brendan Pietrobon;Vladimir Kitaev

  • Self-Assembled Surface Patterns of Binary Colloidal Crystals

    Vladimir Kitaev;Geoffrey A. Ozin

  • Catalytic Nanomotors: Self-Propelled Sphere Dimers

    Leonardo F. Valadares;Yu-Guo Tao;Nicole S. Zacharia;Vladimir Kitaev

  • A Polychromic, Fast Response Metallopolymer Gel Photonic Crystal with Solvent and Redox Tunability: A Step Towards Photonic Ink (P‐Ink)

    André C. Arsenault;Hernan Miguez;Hernan Miguez;Vladimir Kitaev;Geoffrey A. Ozin

  • Ultrathin gold nanoframes through surfactant-free templating of faceted pentagonal silver nanoparticles.

    Matthew McEachran;Dilyn Keogh;Brendan Pietrobon;Nicole Cathcart

  • Chiral thiol-stabilized silver nanoclusters with well-resolved optical transitions synthesized by a facile etching procedure in aqueous solutions.

    Nicole Cathcart;Pretesh Mistry;Christy Makra;Brendan Pietrobon

  • Slow photons in the fast lane in chemistry

    Jennifer I. L. Chen;Georg von Freymann;Sung Yeun Choi;Vladimir Kitaev

  • Effect of Disorder on the Optically Amplified Photocatalytic Efficiency of Titania Inverse Opals

    Jennifer I. L. Chen;Georg Von Freymann;Vladimir Kitaev;Geoffrey A. Ozin

  • Synthesis of Silver Nanoprisms with Variable Size and Investigation of Their Optical Properties: A First-Year Undergraduate Experiment Exploring Plasmonic Nanoparticles

    Andrew J. Frank;Nicole Cathcart;Kenneth E. Maly;Vladimir Kitaev

  • Towards the synthetic all-optical computer: science fiction or reality?

    André Arsenault;Sébastien Fournier-Bidoz;Benjamin Hatton;Hernán Míguez

  • Dielectric Planar Defects in Colloidal Photonic Crystal Films

    Nicolas Tetreault;Nicolas Tetreault;Agustin Mihi;Hernan Miguez;Isabelle Rodriguez

  • Silver Nanoclusters: Single-Stage Scaleable Synthesis of Monodisperse Species and Their Chirooptical Properties†

    Nicole Cathcart;Vladimir Kitaev

  • Photochemically and thermally tunable planar defects in colloidal photonic crystals.

    Friederike Fleischhaker;André C. Arsenault;Vladimir Kitaev;Frank C. Peiris

  • Chiral nanoscale building blocks—from understanding to applications

    Vladimir Kitaev

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey A. Ozin
Geoffrey A. Ozin University of Toronto
Hernán Míguez
Hernán Míguez Spanish National Research Council
Ian Manners
Ian Manners University of Victoria
Nicolas Tétreault
Nicolas Tétreault École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Rudolf Zentel
Rudolf Zentel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Peter R. Herman
Peter R. Herman University of Toronto
J.S. Aitchison
J.S. Aitchison University of Toronto
Neil Coombs
Neil Coombs University of Toronto
Martin Wegener
Martin Wegener Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Eugenia Kumacheva
Eugenia Kumacheva University of Toronto

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